Shades of the Blue Flower

Lies Behind The Mask

"Yuki's gone," Yuya was full with tears.......

"What do you mean," Manami struggled to get up but yet she was still recovering from what had happen from before. "When I logged off, she wasn't next to me, but when I had looked more into it, there was blood on the bed and on the floor," Yuya was crying on the floor, not able to get up from the ground. "Calm down Yuya, we will find her, just explained what happened after you knocked me out," Manami glanced down at Yuya that had seem exhausted, hurt almost as if she was actually damage. "First to clarify we only did it to protect you, Zekken wanted you to have that sword besides the point, after we had done that, we had entered the tower and fought AI's yet there was a cloaked swordsmen standing there like she was controlling the AI's, then when we defeated all of the AI's, both of us felt exhausted as if we actually being damage by their weapo-" she was suddenly interrupted by Aikko interrupting, "Manami, there is someone here to see you."

As Aikko moved out of the way, a tall man with grey hair and silver eyes carrying a toothy smile, "Milady, I have returned." Manami eyes slowly widen as Yuya was shocked sliding herself to the wall behind her. "Ryota," Manami, slowly lifted her hand that was free and slapped Ryota across the face, as he glanced back at her, her blue eyes were filled with tears as she jumped into his arms, "You baka." "Milady I have returned to you, I will always keep my promise to you," he had kept his promise, but Yuya only knew the truth behind his facade. "Hold on, how did you escape," Manami thinking of how he was able to escape from the people that were taking the high level players away. "I was never really taken, I just followed the mission, I did tell you it would take me a few days," he gave a blunt face to show Manami that he had not lied. "But, Haru had told us about the other players going missing," Manami was totally dumbfounded. "Don't worry, I am here to help solve the problem," Ryota gave her a smile as he released her from their hug and rested her back down on the bed she once laid, "Mitsuo why don't you take her out of here," Mitsuo slowly nodded as he picked up Manami off the bed and left the room, both of the forgot that Yuya was still left defenseless from the monster she knew about while everyone else was still blind.

Ryota slowly made his way towards Yuya, she was petrified as he slowly grabbed a piece of her black hair, "You and your sister are truly opposites yet she so much stronger than you and then again she has no defense system without you around her, so if you want to see her again you shall not mention anything about me, and if you do, your precious little twin sister shall be dead," he held her sister karambit next to Yuya's throat as she struggled not to move, "Yes, Silver Sea I won't tell anyone," slowly tears began to escape from her face from her just imagining her sister being killed by a monster that was hiding the truth.

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"Manami, this is not normal," Mitsuo slowly rested Manami on the couch in her office, "What do you mean?" "Manami, Ryota comes back when you are in a game coma also right after that we figure out that Yuki is missing," Mitsuo wasn't as blind as Manami, she was only seeing that her friend had returned, nothing else. "I understand we should maybe investigated also Yuya has information so we can understand more, but I don't see anything else that is not normal," Manami gave Mitsuo a warm smile as he still frowned. "Manami, what's going to happen with us," Mitsuo slowly grabbed her hand. "I can't believe I going to say this but I would love to stay by your side as long as you need me," Manami kept smiling at Mitsuo as he slowly began to smile at her. "Then I will never let you go," Mitsuo slowly kissed Manami's forehead, without them knowing everyone was watching them with a smile yet Ryota scolded as he realized that he may lose what he wanted. "So cute," Manami quickly blushed as Aikko bursted through the office door, "I knew you two were meant to be, I was able to foresee it as you two danced together," Aikko couldn't stop squealing with her smile that was amazingly big. "Aikko, can you please locate Yuya, I want to understand what fully happened," Manami slowly began to cover her face. "I can actually go through Yuya's Multivac to see the memory file," Dai made her way beside Aikko, Dai held her hand on her hip. "I never really thought about that, what has to be done though," Manami was never an expert on Multivacs but she knew more than others would have. "Well with Yuya's exception, we must need the owners Multivac to accept us to look also we need a code, it will take longer because of the process also Yuya's Multivac is an older edition than ours," Dai was blunt with some words, yet she never really cared about others. "Um, I think we should get the process started, also we may want Haru intake on the event," Manami smiled to see if Dai would give her a smile back but their was no emotion, only a small nod, with her turning around with her leaving the office.